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(...) If the academics are right, it may have rolled over in 1993/94; so many problems are associated with just when we started counting, not to mention whether it's 2000 or 2001 years! best, LFB (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Also, I think that much of the Midwest would empty out if somehow you couldn't make booze--it's a fine tradition where I grew up, since the winters are so cold you're pretty much restricted to carnality and alcoholism (and, in East Lansing, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) (walking to the edge of the hometown, on the border of Canada, and stepping across the line:) "Ha! I will EAT my liqueured chocolates, and I will BREATHE ON YOUR CHILDREN!" Dang half-Canuck traitors, we be! ;) LFB (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) sell (...) into (...) you (...) I think I should have clarified that private citizens can't sell alcohol unless uncle sam gets his cut.- You have to have some kind of license. Chris (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) As long as you get your licenses and pay your taxes you can sell the alcohol you brew. Down here in North Carolina, we read several times a year about the revenuers busting someone who has a garage still. One year there was even an article (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had originally written "before the end of this millenium", but I thought that sounded too pessimistic. And I didn't want to give anyone an opening for the 2000/2001 diatribe. Steve Personally, I just care when the odometer rolls over. (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'd have to disagree with this, only because of all the Micro-Brewerys in Wisconsin, they make and sell alcoholic beverages. Maybe you need some type of license to do this.. I'm not sure.. I'd have to ask my brother who is a Master Brewer at a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, James Brown writes: I guess that's the kind (...) hurrah for immoral and corrupting!!! ;> (...) From what I understand- you can make wine and beer as long as you don't sell it- that's a tax thing. I don't think you are (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, crazy. In the last couple years (a budding tradition), Christmas doesn't even start until Costco has packs of rum candies. ;) I guess that's the kind of immoral, corrupting behavior you get when you marry into a Dutch family. <grin, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I find this rant offensive, and I'm going to work very hard to see that you can't continue it! 8^) Dave! (just kidding, of course!) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Small teensey rant here: I think it's probably because we have a long standing tradition in this country of deciding how other people can and cannot get there jollies. Many entertainments and vices of an "adult" nature offend the sensibilties (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It has something to do with the alcohol content in the liqueur. I believe the only US state that those *could* be sold in (legally) is/was Nevada. I know that Ethel M used to make a liqueur chocolate for sale there. Ray (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It is illegal to sell candy in the US that has any sort of alcohol in it. I have never heard a good explanation why other than "kids might eat it and decide that booze is fun or tastes yummy". Which, if you've ever been to florida during (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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"Selçuk " wrote: <snip> (...) Well I can explain this one somewhat for you, especially since my birthday is Dec 20th.. I still celebrate it, though sometimes I think I should move it to another month.. Some of the main reasons: You don't get a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Mr L F Braun <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:3847779B.88F0A8...msu.edu... (...) Thanks,..:-) Actually, I'm not so much a Muslim, although I'm supposed to be so. I educated to be one, but beginning from the teenage times, it started (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for the reminder that 70% of the world is non-Christian. Sometimes it's easy to forget. ;) Happy Ramadan coming up, Selçuk. best, Lindsay --- Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr) Department of History Rutgers, the State University of New (...) (26 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Really? Shoot. I'm gonna have to stop reading Lugnet, then - I barely have enough responsiblility to cover my work and real life commitments, none to spare for my hobbies. Or can I be irresponsible by removing the responsibility requirement (...) (26 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Now see, if you were really good, you'd use Trinary instead of binary. Although I confess I get a cramp holding my fingers in half up, down or up positions for any length of time. (Glad you never called ME a Pharisee! :-) ) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I feel your pain every December 28th;-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Nope- I got a double whammy- I was born on Jan 6th, then my brother came along two years later on the 19th. So sometimes presents that were for both christmas and the birthday, sometimes b-day presents that were for both of us, and - slightly (...) (26 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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